Remember to wear a pink scarf/hejab today! Support breast cancer survivors and create awareness of the disease!
Here are some good reads for 10.26.07:
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The first Pakistani woman astronaut gets ready to blast off!
- Ed Husain from U.K.’s The Guardian explores Women Without Borders in Vienna, and the platform they have given to Muslim women.
- Lilith Attack explores the racist backlash from a bus incident in which the bus driver wore a headscarf.
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A Spanish film about the discrimination that Muslim women who wear hejab face in Spain.
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Why Ayaan Hirsi Ali isn’t a good spokesperson for Islam.
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Police detain dozens of Muslim Kashmiri women for protesting the U.N.’s failure to resolve the Kashmir dispute.
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Queen Rania comes to California and kicks ass!
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Haleh Afshar takes up a seat in the British House of Lords, just for being one smart lady.
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Why Islamo-Facism Awareness Week is full of crap (and lots of hate,too).
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Kabul has a fashion show for policewomen. This is supposed to build moral among female policewomen how? With all the fashion shows it’s had lately, you’d think Kabul would be the world’s next fashion capital.
- An American professor wears niqab to teach students a lesson about perceptions and prejudice.
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A Saudi woman makes the case that niqab is a cultural garment, not a religious one.
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God, I heard on the radio today that Canadian parliament is passing a bill requiring Muslim women wearing full face veils have to reveal themselves to identify who they are in order to be able to vote.http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/10/26/veils-legislation.htmlThis is upsetting because how large of a problem could Muslim woman double voting be? Only about 40% of people in Canada vote, why make it harder for the people who do? Double voting is the only reason I can image they would want this bill. That and you can vote By proxy, never even having to show any ID!Although they did state that women can show their faces in behind an enclosure to a female polling official. “During the recent byelections in Quebec, the government made it clear that we disagreed with the decision by Elections Canada to allow people to vote while concealing their face.”Funny, it always goes back to Quebec. For years no one has seemed to have a problem with Muslim woman voting with their faces covered. Why now? Also, this is the Tories attempting to introduce the bill, our Republican-like party, is that a surprise?Thankfully today’s post if full of good news!
The story about the Carleton professor being a niqabi for three weeks was fascinating. I’m curious what the administration and faculty thought of it.